I wrote this for @s_mystic_writer contest on Instagram! This also inspired a poetry book I'm kinda working on (kinda...). I also got first place and the prize was the edit above based on this piece! ^^
Paralysis (Written 5-14-20)
I can feel it before I see it
This pressure on my body
This presence holding onto me
I force my eyes open and pray for emptiness
For nothing but warm air hugging me
tricking my sleepy mind
But it's there
A long wriggling centipede sits on my stomach
The long legs grip onto my thin blanket
Onto the skin of my neck and cheeks
It burrows into me through my ears
though my eyes
through my nose
through my mouth
and all I can hear is the tick tick tick
of its legs as it climbs
The body is never ending
It just keeps going
deeper and deeper and deeper into my body
It runs around my stomach
and stirs my organs in the dark
It presses every bit of air from my lungs until the pain is gone
Until the only movement is under my skin
Until the only sound is the wet gurgle of my flesh
being torn to bits
YOU ARE READING
Chance (Poetry Collection)
PoetryIn 2020 amid the COVID-19 quarantine, I started writing poetry again. These are the chances I took to connect with others through simple gatherings of words even if we couldn't gather in public. [March 14 - PRESENT]
